Show Help the Red Cross Campaign ends at 7 30 tonight count county's s quota is and members have been obtained ri 7 r y- y ti Tr r I. I 1 err f l j VI I t 1 f SAt SALT T LAKE LAIE GREETING FIRST DRY FIRST WAR CHRISTMAS By Frank C. C Greene ERRY CHRISTMAS fAS o I I MERRY M Ia Ia That's my answer to the city editors editor's terse instructions Write a n. Christmas story and make It something something some some- thing new and different Just Imagine these city editors editors- asking for Cor something new on a 0 astory astory story that Is exactly 1917 years ears old tomorrow But that's just it Old as It Is Christmas Is new ever every year Old Salt Lake town smiles smilE's up at nt you ou and says Merry l Christmas like It was something new and gets away with it It too Come to think of it there Is something new about this Christ Christ- mas Its It's the time first red Christmas for the United States and its it's Salt Lakes Lake's first dry Christmas The fact tact that Utah boys are wearing khaki in the service of the Christ whose birthday Is to be b celebrated tomorrow Is going to tomake tomake tomake make the observance more earnest and fervent than ever Prohibition Is U making it a n less lelU frivolous and ond more sober Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas but while the tho customary spirits spirits spir spir- its of the day will be bo less in evidence evidence evi evi- I dence the real spirit of ot the occasion occasion occa occa- sion slon will be more than ever present I I At Ft Douglas will be staged to tonight tonight tonight to- to night the largest Christmas demonstration demonstration dem dem- scheduled for the time city With the post decked out in the time I Red ned White and Blue mingled with the Christmas s greenery greener everything e is In readiness for or a celebration to i be he put on for the men at the time post by the citizens Every J soldier will receive a Ii Christmas Christinas brance Even the prisoners in Imm the tho Internment camp will wt be Several days das ago the city finished getting off oct its gifts to the Utahans with the colors elsewhere One of ot tho the largest Christmas trees ever used in Salt Lake has been decorated for Cor the day The soldiers will be in line at 7 1 o'clock tonight for tor the event which will start at that hour with an elaborate elaborate elaborate rate Christmas vaudeville pro program ram and a distribution of gifts Every ery soldier will receive a present To mark the opening of ot a beautiful beautiful beau beau- Christmas service Christmas carols will be sung outside of St. St Marks Mark's Episcopal church tonight at 11 1115 15 A full tun festival communion service under the direction of J. J W W. Curtis will follow tollow At midnight midnight mid mid- night communion will take place while an nn l feature of ot the ceremony ceremony emon emony will be the singing of ot The Star Spangled Banner Immediately Immedi immedi- atel after the of ot alms aim when the entire congregation tion vestry anti antt ami clergy will be standing A A. II it Peabody will preside at the tho I Continued on page pageO t. 4 SALT LAKE GREETING Continued from page 1 1 organ Mrs J. J W. W Curtis Curts assisted by bythe bythe bythe the choir will sing Star of Peace H. H M. M 11 Barratt will wi sing a tenor solo oio from King Kins Halls Hails Hals Hal's Benedictus The communion service by King ICing Hall Hal will willbe willbo be bo given XMAS AT PRISON Although they are in disgrace and nd shut away from the world some for forthe forthe the tile period of their lives the convicts at the state prison are not forgotten according to Warden Varden George Storrs Mothers remember their erring sons at Christmas time and try tr to bring a little joy into their sa sad l lives by sending them huge baskets of presents Wives Vives send their husbands presents at which they have tolled toled in the making making making ma ma- king throughout many weary days or which have cost them every penny they could spare from the me meager ger hard- hard earned horde Christmas cards spotted spotted spotted spot spot- ted with wih the tears of grieving friends or children are received by the men during the holidays For the last three weeks the amount of express received at the prison has been unusually heavy according according according ac ac- acI ac- I cording to the warden Men who are areso areso i iso so faithfully remembered by their I wives or or mothers cannot be wholly I I bad say the guards and the tho thought i that some some one still sti has faith in them 1 helps many a prisoner to reform i iNo I INo No No- No program will wi be rendered at atthe atthe the sta state te prison tomorrow but in the next two weeks more than one little I entertainment has been arranged by kindhearted entertainers and musi- musi clans I cans All Al Temple workers and of the tile offices of the tile Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Later day Saints were re remembered remembered remembered re- re today by the church with Christmas remembrances in the form of f cash bonuses which they received I along long with wih their monthly pay for De De- cember Many employee of the i church auxiliaries not paid directly from the church coffers received one- one I half haI months month's salary Sunday schedules will wi prevail on all al lines of the Utah Light and and Traction Traction Trac Trac- Trac I tion Uon company tomorrow a according cording to H. H F. F Dicke general manager of the j Utah Light and Traction Tracton company I Although there will wi be no curtail curtan- I I I ment of the ordinary Sunday service service servI I ice there will wi be smaller service than Ion j I jon on week days dars j I PLEA FOR PRISONERS i j jIn In accordance with his annual custom cus cus- I tom torn and in keeping with the spirit of the day William Newton was tomake to tomake I I make lii his annual plea for the pardon and release of all al prisoners in police polee court this afternoon Thirty-one Thirty were I affected Judge John Tobin intimated that he would b b- inclined to grant the request re request request re- re j quest and dismiss every case on the th calendar Annually for many years Judge Newton has risen in his place at the lawyers' lawyers table in police court on the the day before Christmas and In inspired I terms addressed the court recommending recommending mending mercy for the deJ dejected prisoners prisoners pris pris- in the dock and the bringing of Christmas Christma cheer to the hearts of ot I those under the sh shadow dow of the disI disapproval disapproval dis dis- dis- dis approval of the law Only such cases in which the of- of of j I was of a minor nature have i been arranged on the court sheet sheet I There are not so many as in previous I I I I I I I I years Prohibition has reduced the ranks of the the- the drunks and only a afew afew afew few old hardened veterans of many battles battes with wih J. J Barleycorn were vere present present present pres pres- ent to receive the mercy merty mery of the court court Others charged with wih vagrancy and minor offenses who w w v wre vre re to be tried today also hoped to receive the pardon pardon pardon par par- don of the court as a Christmas pres pres' present ent Christmas and Christmas alone occupied oc occupied the attention of the county commission toda today First It i ordered the addition additon of 5 to the December checks of the janitors employed In Inthe inthe inthe the county side of the city and county building Then it decreed a ahal half hal holiday this afternoon for all al county though under the statute one person must be left lef in some of the offices and they must be l kept ept open The commission concluded concluded con con- eluded by ordering that all al county counts es shall be paid today All Al offices will be closed all d county al day tomorrow Steel bars of the county jail jai will 1 not keep leep the Christmas spirit away from there Jailer George gs Cleveland announced today that he is preparing a sumptuous chicken dinner dinner din din- ner ncr for the inmates On the city side of the building a ahal half hal holiday for this afternoon had been decreed The already es are being paid this afternoon Many of the prisoners in the city Jail jai will 1 probably be allowed their freedom as their Christmas present Everybody in the building said Merry terry Christmas Christmas' this this' morning but it was not noticeable that Christmas cigars were not as much in evidence as in former years The reason is that on account of the war little public pub pub- lie lic lc work has been undertaken an anthe and the contractors who have usually made Christmas a presentation occasion occasion occasion occa occa- sion are not as opulent this time as they usual usually are ar But the boys Understood un understood understood un- un the situation and accepted the greetings of ot the builders in the same spirit n nS though they had be been n accompanied by costly costy gifts girs I POSTOFFICE POSTOFFICE HOURS The schedule of ot hours for the Salt sal Lal Lake e postoffice and the listed number of deliveries to be made tomorrow II j I has just been issued by Noble M Warrum War War- I ar arrum ar- ar arI I rum postmaster today as a e follows j I II Ci City and rural rural carriers will 1 mal make e one delivery delvery At main of office all al mall mail mai I 1 delivery windows will wi be bo open from I delvery 9 0 a. a m. m to 11 1 a. a m. m Parcel post and special delivery delver matter mattel mater will be de- de all al day Murray branch and I Sugarhouse station staton of this office will willbe I be open from 9 to 11 1 a. a m. m I |